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Everything about XSL Formatting Objects

Markup language

XSL-FO is a markup language for XML document formatting that is most often used to generate PDF files. It has largely been superseded by the CSS3 but is still maintained for legacy systems. Wikipedia →

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  1. Read the overview: XSL Formatting ObjectsA 5-minute orientation
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  1. File structure
  2. XSL-FO 1.0
  3. XSL-FO 1.1
  4. Limitations

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